Community College Humanities Association 2017 National Conference Hosted by the Community College of County

Breaking Boundaries: The Humanities Reimagined

November 9–11 The Renaissance Baltimore Hotel Baltimore, MD #CCHA17 Breaking Boundaries: The Humanities Reimagined

Welcome

Conference Planning Team Dear Conference Attendee: National Office: On behalf of the Community College Humanities Association’s Board Andrew Rusnak c/o Community College of Baltimore County, MD of Directors, I’d like to take this opportunity to extend a very warm welcome 7201 Rossville Blvd., Baltimore, MD, 21237 to Baltimore for CCHA’s national conference, Breaking Boundaries: The Phone: 443.840.5180 Humanities Reimagined. Greg Campbell, Conference Chair As you know, CCHA has undergone a significant transformation in Fran O'Connor, Program Chair the past year. The organization has successfully transitioned from its former Community College of Baltimore County, MD home in Newark, New Jersey, and Essex County College to the Community Members of Planning Committee: College of Baltimore County. New staff objectives include bolstering insti- tutional membership, producing larger and more accessible conferences with Haleh Azimi, Local Arrangements Chair Laura Trauth, Local Program Chair progressive, challenging programming, and providing more tangible benefits Mel Barry to individual faculty members. Cassady Chesnut Annmarie Chiarini CCHA and the humanities education it represents for community Linda De La Ysla college students needs to grow, to be more visible to all community colleges Ryan Donnelly and higher education in general, to have a stronger voice. Our advocacy Jessica Floyd Guillermo Gibens for the humanities has never been more important, and the skills and Heather Harris understanding our students build in the humanities have never been more Bernadette Low personally and professionally valuable. When you add your voice—and Sarah Morales support—to CCHA’s we expand our impact and influence. We need to do Billy Tooma both. The connection and deep learning made possible by the study of the Suzanne McCormack, Exhibits Garrett Brooks, Graphic Designer humanities are essential to empowering the full diversity of our communities to tackle the world’s biggest challenges. Board of Directors Please use this time at CCHA to think about those boundaries that hinder us from imagining a new future that builds on the past, embraces Anne M. Kress, Chair Constance Carroll growth in our traditional disciplines, creates new subject-matter, and expands Sandra Kurtinitis our visibility and relationships with others. This conference offers diverse Mick Starcevich programming. Attend as many sessions as you can, ask questions, share your Brian Murphy thoughts, and take home valuable, practical ideas you can apply in your Andrew J. Rusnak classrooms. Don’t hesitate to seek out a staff member and ask how you can be Divisional Presidents involved. This is your association, help it grow. And enjoy the culturally rich city of Baltimore, . Amy Clark Knapp, Central Rebecca Williams, Eastern Tina Redd, Pacific-Western Sincerely, Wes Lites, Southern Linda Sears, Southwestern National Staff Dr. Anne Kress Executive Director: Andrew Rusnak President, Monroe Community College Deputy Executive Director: Billy Tooma Chair, Board of Directors, Greg Campbell Deputy Executive Director: Community College Humanities Association Director of Special Projects, Conference, and Volunteer Recruitment: Fran O'Connor Director of Communications and Marketing: Jessica Floyd Director of Membership: Daniel Lewis Director of Publications: Sydney Elliott Office Administrator:Catherine Feehley Community College Humanities Association 2017 National Conference

At-A-Glance Thursday, November 9th 7:00 a.m.–7:00 p.m. Pre-Conference Workshop 1 Tour of Washington, DC 12:00 p.m.–1:00 p.m. Board Members Lunch 12:00 p.m.–2:00 p.m. Pre-Conference Workshop 2 1:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m. Pre-Conference Workshop 3 2:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m. Pre-Conference Workshop 4 1:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m. CCHA Board of Directors Meeting Federal Hill 11:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m. Registration 12:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m. Exhibits 5:00 p.m.–6:00 p.m. Opening Reception 6:00 p.m.–7:45 p.m. Plenary Session 1: D. Watkins Friday, November 10th 7:15 a.m.–8:10 a.m. Continental Breakfast 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Exhibits 8:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. Registration 2:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m. Registration 8:15 a.m.–9:10 a.m. Concurrent Sessions 1-10 9:15 a.m.–10:10 a.m. Concurrent Sessions 11-20 10:10 a.m.–10:25 a.m. Coffee Break 10:30 a.m.–11:25 a.m. Concurrent Sessions 21-30 11:30 a.m.–12:25 p.m. Concurrent Sessions 31-40 12:30 p.m.–2:00 p.m. Banquet Luncheon, Plenary 2: Janine di Giovanni 2:05 p.m.–3:00 p.m. Concurrent Sessions 41-50 3:00 p.m.–3:15 p.m. Coffee Break:Maryland Foyer CB 3:20 p.m.–4:15 p.m. Concurrent Sessions 51-60 4:15 p.m.– ______Membership Committee and Diversity Committee: all welcome Reception: Cash Bar and hors d'oeuvres to follow Saturday, November 11th 7:00 a.m.–8:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast 7:30 a.m.–9:00 a.m. Divisional Business Meetings 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Exhibits 8:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. Registration 9:15 p.m.–10:10 a.m. Liaison Officers Workshop 10:30 a.m.–12:25 p.m. Deans' Committee 2:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m. Registration 9:15 a.m.–10:10 a.m. Concurrent Sessions 61-70 10:10 a.m.–10:25 a.m. Coffee Break 10:30 a.m.–11:20 a.m. Concurrent Sessions 71-80 11:30 p.m.–12:25 p.m. Concurrent Sessions 81-90 12:30 p.m.–2:00 p.m. Banquet Luncheon, Plenary 3: "Bert" Phillips 2:05 p.m.–3:00 p.m. Concurrent Sessions 91-100 2:45 p.m.–3:00 p.m. Coffee Break:Maryland Foyer CB 3:20 p.m.–4:15 p.m. Concurrent Sessions 101-110 4:20 p.m.– ______Post-Conference Workshops and Special Events Post-Conference Reception and hors d'oeuvres #CCHA17 2 The Keynote Speakers

D. Watkins

D. Watkins is the Editor At Large for Salon. His work has been published in The New York Times, Guardian, Rolling Stone, and other publications. He holds a master’s in Education from University and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Baltimore. He is a college professor at the University of Baltimore and founder of the BMORE Writers Project. Watkins has been the recipient of numerous awards including Ford’s Men of Courage and a BME Fellowship. Watkins is from and lives in East Baltimore. He is the author of The Cook Up: A Crack Rock Memoir and The Beast Side: Living (and Dying) While Black in America.

Janine di Giovanni

As of September 2017, Janine di Giovanni will be the Edward Murrow Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Affairs in New York researching Syrian minorities. She is the former Middle East editor of Newsweek and a recent Pakis Scholar at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, where she focused on Track 2 Diplomacy, International Law and International Security as well as war crimes In 2016, she was awarded the Courage in Journalism Award for her distinguished work in war zones focusing on tracking war criminals over the past 25 years, most recently, Syria. Currently working in Syria and Iraq, she is focusing on ISIS and other insurgency groups in the Middle East, but her overall thesis is on talking to non-state actors to reduce conflict and providing political representation post-war to minorities. Her most recent book, The Morning They Came for Us: Dispatches from Syria has been called “searing and necessary” by the New York Times and has so far won three awards a well as being named one of the best human rights books in 2016. It has been translated into 18 languages so far, and has won three awards in 2016. It is shortlisted for the Helen Bernstein Award at the New York Public Library for Excellence in Journalism. A skilled analyst, communicator and strategist, she is also non-resident International Security Fellow at the New America Foundation and an Associate Fellow at The Geneva Centre for Security Policy, where she moderates their geopolitical debate series. She is a former Ochberg Fellow at Columbia School of Journalism, given in recognition of her work with victims of trauma. She is a frequent moderator of high-level panels, an analyst on foreign policy at conferences and has worked for the World Economic Forum, the World Bank, the UN, Harvard’s Kennedy School; Princeton, the LSE, and many other institutions. In 2014, she also worked for the Center for Conflict, Negotiation and Recovery at Central European University with a focus on transitional justice in Aleppo. Her TED talk on conflict resolution and transitional justice, filmed at the USIP, has reached more than 950,000 viewers. She is a former adviser on the Syria conflict to the UNHCR, and has advised senior officials on policy for the EU, NATO and others. She was a delegate to William Hague’s conference on addressing sexual violence during conflict and has published extensively on the subject. As a journalist, she has reported war, conflict and its aftermath for more than 25 years in the Middle East, the Balkans and Africa. She has witnessed the siege of Sarajevo, the fall of Grozny 3 The Keynote Speakers

and the destruction of Srebrenica and Rwanda in 1994 as well as more than a dozen active conflicts where she was a front-line witness. Her documentation of war crimes has resulted in seven books and her work has been used to cite criminals in later Tribunals. She has won nine awards and The Morning They Came for Us: Dispatches from Syria and has been the subject of two long-format documentaries, including 7 Days in Syria. Di Giovanni is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She lives in Paris and holds American, British and French nationalities. She has worked extensively in the following war and conflict zones and during humanitarian crisis: Palestine/Israel; Bosnia; Serbia; Kosovo; Montenegro; Albania; East Timor; Zimbabwe; Somalia; Ivory Coast; Nigeria; Liberia; Sierra Leone; Burkina Faso; Burundi; Rwanda; South Africa; Egypt; Syria; Libya; Tunisia; Lebanon; Iraq; Iran; Afghanistan; Pakistan; India; Bahrain; UAE; Algeria; Turkey Greece; Vietnam and other countries.

P. Bertrand Phillips

Dr. P. Bertrand Phillips is a long-time champion of civil rights and social and economic justice. He is a tireless advocate for gender equity, equal rights for all, and world peace. As Dean of Student Affairs and professor of education and psychology of Tuskegee Institute (University, he dared to create an integrated tutorial group of college students to tutor Black students in Alabama in the summer of 1965 when Governor George Wallace was standing in the schoolhouse door defiantly shouting, "Segregation Now and Segregation Forever." He is currently writing a book about this period of the Civil Rights Movement. Bert also designed, facilitated, and directed a worldwide, U.S. Navy, Race Relations, Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Program for the Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Zumwalt. During his career, he has been a secondary school teacher, a college administrator and professor and an education and organization development consultant in a wide range of industries throughout the United States and internationally. His wife Judith, joined him in founding the Africa United States Partnership Fund (AUSPF), AUSPF is an all-volunteer organization and it has carried out education and entrepreneurial development projects in South Africa, Lesotho, and Kenya. AUSPF’s Mission is to help others help themselves and alleviate poverty by assisting in the empowerment of African families and communities through quality education, micro-entrepreneurial development, and financial literacy. Bert recently received an honorary degree of Doctor of Social Sciences and Humane Letters "honors causa" awarded by the Faculty and the Board of Regents of St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, in recognition of his accomplishments as an Educator, Consultant, and Humanitarian in advancing social, racial, and global justice. In addition to chairing the Board of Directors of AUSPF and serving on the Board of Advisors of the Science and Technology Magnet High School of Southeastern Connecticut, He has also designed and is facilitating "The Dialogue Authenticity Process" that focuses on Positive Race Relations and Cultural Competency. Bert has been married to Judith Victoria Stirling Phillips for 57 years. They have one daughter, two sons and five grandchildren.

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THURSDAY, Nov. 9th

Pre-Conference Workshop 1 PLENARY SESSION 1

7:00 a.m.–7:00 p.m. Hotel lobby 5:45–7:45 p.m. Maryland Ballroom CBA Tour of Washington, DC (Limit: 15) Presiding: Rebecca Williams Essex County College, NJ Pre-Conference Workshop 2 President, Eastern Division Baltimore Introduction: Sheri Parks, Baltimore Stories 12:00–2:00 p.m. Watertable A Welcome: Sandra Kurtinitis Smithsonian Learning Lab: Community College of Baltimore County, MD New Digital Tool for Interdisciplinary Speaker Introduction: Jessica Floyd Humanities Community College of Baltimore County, MD NOTE: Please bring fully-charged laptops or devices. Keynote Speaker: D. Watkins Jamie Gillan | Sara Bachman Ducey Montgomery College, MD

Pre-Conference Workshop 3 About the Speaker Faculty Panel D. Watkins—Salon columnist, MFA in Creative Writing 1:00–3:00 p.m. Watertable B from the University of Baltimore, ME from Johns Hopkins, The Community College Public Humanities University of Baltimore Professor, published in the New York Center: Civic Engagement, Community Outreach Times, Rolling Stone, best-selling author of The Beast Side: Kim Hicks | Rául Gutiérrez Living and Dying While Black in America and The Cook Up: A Holyoke Community College, MA Crack Rock Memoir, founder of the BMORE Writer’s Project— Matthew Olson has impressive credentials. But they came with a heavy cost. Middlesex Community College, MA Watkins had to overcome the culture of Baltimore’s mean Ellen Rothman streets and his past as a drug dealer. “I saw bullets rip through Mass Humanities, MA the faces of adolescents. I saw mothers abandon their kids. I saw fathers go out for milk to never return. I saw kids turn into Pre-Conference Workshop 4 killers. Cops steal and grandparents raise infants around here.” Faculty Panel

2:00–4:00 p.m. Watertable C Using Primary Sources to Support Inquiry-Based Instruction NOTE: Please bring fully-charged laptops or devices. Franky Abbott Digital Public Library of America, MA Nancy Schurr Chattanooga State Community College, TN Virginia Spivey Independent Art Historian

4:45–5:45 p.m. Maryland Foyer CB Opening Reception | Cash Bar: All Welcome

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FRIDAY, Nov. 10th

7:15 a.m.–8:10 a.m. Continental Breakfast 5: Watertable B Maryland Ballroom CB Academic Engagement At The Library Of Congress 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Exhibits Faculty Panel 8:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. Registration Jarvis Slacks 2:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Registration Montgomery College, MD Barrie Howard Concurrent Sessions 1-10 (8:15–9:10) Project Management Specialist Library of Congress Meeting Levels: 5th and 6th floors 6: Watertable A 1: Gibson Shining a Light on Unusual Texts The Mind and Mindfulness: Nurturing Student Moderator: Jules Sears Learning Collin College, TX Moderator: Jessamyn Snider "Evergreen, The Walters, The Peabody: Rare Book Cochise Community College, AZ Collections in Baltimore" "Hard-Wiring the Mind: Creating Sensory Engagement to Bernadette Low Nurture Critical Thinking" Community College of Baltimore County, MD Erika Rakas "The USPS as a Class: Surveying the Humanities through College of DuPage, IL Stamps!" "Saving Socrates, or Restoring Mindfulness to Student Dallie Clark Learning" Collin College, TX Pamela Longo Northampton Community College, PA 7: Fells Point Transhumanality and Beyond 2: St. George Moderator: Leo Hwang Critical Thinking And The Power Of Social Media Greenfield Community College, MA Faculty Panel "Transhumans: The Interface of Humans and Machines" Richard Potsubay | Megan Reiser Zoe Close Green River College, WA Grossmont College, CA "Robots Can’t F@#k: On the Non-Equivalency of Human 3: Kent and Artificial Intelligence" Applying for the 2018 NEH Institute on Slavery and Donovan Muir the Constitution San Diego Miramar College, CA Paul Benson Dallas County Community College, TX 8: Promoting Liberal Education In Working Class And 4: James Other Oppressed Communities Common Read At Tri C: Instituting A Common Roundtable Reading Program At A Multi-Campus Community Renewing the Place of the Liberal Arts in Contemporary College Community Colleges Faculty Panel Mark Curtis-Thames Theresa Gromek | Bridget Kriner El Centro College, TX Casandra Sweeney | John Rasel Cuyahoga Community College, OH

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9: Guilford 13: St. George Great, Crazy Ideas: Reading Partners: Student and Faculty Explorations that Challenge Rational Thought Engagement Through Service Learning Moderator: Barbara England Carr Kizzier | Theresa Robinson | Maria Goodson North Central Texas College, TX Community College of Baltimore County, MD "Teaching the Irrational: Handling the Fringe Ideas of Famous Thinkers" 14: James Brian Johnson Enhancing Moral and Political Knowledge in the Cuyahoga Community College, OH Classroom "Apollonian Light and Dionysian Darkness: Rethinking Moderator: Jason Whitmarsh Greek Myth" Saint Johns River State College, FL Elijah Pritchett | Russell Swanson "Voter Education: Non-Partisan Teaching" Florida Southwestern State College, FL Kristen P. McKenna River Valley Community College, NH 10: Watertable C "Schematic Approach to Moral Philosophy's Question, Gone but not Forgotten: 'Why Should I Be Moral?'" Past Writers Who Speak to Us Now Jacob Witucki Moderator: Jules Sears Ivy Tech Community College, IN Collin College, TX "Bromfield: The Distant Past, the Near Past, and the Future" 15: Pride of Baltimore Paul Sukys Whiteness: Fragility and Invisibility in the North Central State College, OH Classroom and Beyond "Virgil Geddes, the Forgotten O'Neill: Poet, Playwright, John M. Lawton and Postmaster" Community College of Baltimore County, MD David Leight Reading Area Community College, PA 16: Watertable A Good Writing is Good Writing in Any Language: Concurrent Sessions 11-20 (9:15–10:10) Strengthening the Writing of Non-Native Speakers Moderator: Anthony Kolios 11: Kent Queensborough Community College, CUNY, NY Reclaiming Truth: "Cross-Cultural Commenting: Strengthening the Writing The Role of Humanities in The Age Of Information of the NNES Student" Faculty Panel Stacie Miller Cristóbal Espinoza-Wulack | Giuseppe Rotolo Community College of Baltimore County, MD Terrence Corrigan | Timothy Hack "Critical Thinking Through the Variation of the Spanish- Middlesex County College, NJ Speaking Language" Jorge A. Alas 12: Gibson Monroe Community College, NY To Be? Or Not So Much: Reimagining Teaching Shakespeare 17: Fells Point Moderator: Cathy E. Fagan Why Is Plato's Cave Still Relevant in The Nassau Community College NY Technological Age? "Breaking up with Shakespeare: Saving Students, Sanity, Faculty Panel and Lives" Kevin Kondik | Diane Gaston Sydney Elliot Cuyahoga Community College, OH Tillamook Bay Community College, WA "Reimagining Literature in the Composition Class" Kevin Kilroy Independent Researcher

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18: Watertable B 24: James Talking Up/About the Humanities Developing Awareness: Rita Kranidis | Effie Siegel | Rebecca Eggenschwiler Unexpected Avenues to Student Literacy Montgomery College, MD Moderator: Ian Duckles San Diego Mesa College, CA 19: Guilford "Active, Awoken, Aware, Apathetic: Social Justice Dialogue Using Online Educational Resources in in Developmental English" Composition & Literature Classes David "Forrest" Caskey Faculty Panel Anne Arundel Community College, MD Richard Marranca | Alexandra Della Fera | Kenneth Karol "Personal Writing: An Unexpected Prerequisite To Passaic Community College, NJ Information Literacy" Matthew James Hodgson 20: Watertable C Chemeketa Community College, OR Technology, the Workforce and Striking Developments 25: Pride of Baltimore Moderator: Renee Garris Tackle Social Justice But Tackle It Slant: How Eight Germanna Community College, VA SLCC Courses Became A Social Justice Community "Technological Innovations and Patent Institutions in Faculty Panel Britain and the U.S. - 1750-1900" Kati Lewis | Claire Peterson Satarupa Das Benjamin Solomon |Zendina Mostert Montgomery College, TP/SS, MD Salt Lake Community College, UT "Taylorism, Heidegger and the Modern Academy" Ian Duckles 26: Watertable A San Diego Mesa College, CA Teaching For Change: Guiding Students Through Social Justice Projects Coffee Break 10:10-10:25 Faculty Panel Blake Ellis Lone Star College, TX Concurrent Sessions 21-30 (10:30–11:25) Liesl Ward Harris Jefferson State Community College, AL 21: St. George Dissertation Station: Redux 27: Fells Point Faculty Panel Necessary for Survival, but Maybe not for Success? Billy Tooma Controversial Views on the Value of Community Essex County College, NJ College Courses and Education in General Lindsay M. Warren | Tony Calandrillo Moderator: Carr Kizzier Drew University, NJ Community College of Baltimore County, MD "Humanities in the Age of Neo-Liberalism" 22: Gibson Jim Soto Bringing Africa To A Midwestern Class St. Clair County Community College, MI Faculty Panel "Increasing Student Engagement Through Open Furaha Henry-Jones | Faheem Curtis-Khdir Educational Resources at Community Colleges" Sinclair Community College, Ohio Joseph Donica Bronx Community College, CUNY, NY 23: Kent American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Funding Opportunities from ACLS: Fellowships, Grants, and Advice Rachel Bernard Matthew Goldfeder, ACLS

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28: Watertable B 32: Watertable C Interactive Shakespeare for Today's Students Teaching Writing By Way of Family History and Moderator: Richard Marranca Culture Passaic Community College, NJ Moderator: Hank Galmish "Madness, Yet There is Method”: Teaching Shakespeare in Green River College, CO English Composition" "Cultural Identity Maps" Katherine Di Marca Sheri Jordan Massasoit Community College, MA Anne Arundel Community College, MD "Communication, Interpretation, Collaboration: Deaf/ "Using Family History To Teach Reading and Thinking" Hearing Theatre in the Community College Setting" Monika Fleming James Caverly Edgecombe Community College, NC Community College of Baltimore County, MD 33: St. George 29: Guilford Speak Up and Speak Out: Examining the Extreme Within Technological Exploring and Challenging Hegemony Innovations Moderator: Mara Lee Grayson Moderator: Travis Meek Pace University, NY Hillsborough Community College, FL "'Everyone Has a Story:' Speech as Social Justice Curricula" "Neither Gloom & Doom Nor Sweetness & Light" Kashif Jerome Powell Joe Safdie East Los Angeles College, CA San Diego Mesa College, CA "Exploring Hegemony Through Civic Engagement: How "Analyzing HBO’s Westworld: Biopolitics and Students Use Service Learning to Challenge Oppression" Posthumanism as Alternative Bioethics" Kerri-Ann Smith Bassam Sidiki Queensborough Community College, CUNY, NY Northwestern University Center for Medical Humanities and Bioethics, IL 34: James Perceptions of American Education 30: Watertable C Moderator: Cathy E. Fagan Promoting Environmental Awareness And Practice Nassau Community College NY In Curricula, Clubs, And Committees "Inquiry Into Inmates’ Perception of Public Education on Faculty Panel Criminal Activities" Elyse Zucker | Julie Trachman Tom Hallquist Hostos Community College, CUNY, NY Columbia State Community College, TN "Envisioning Community College: Media Analysis in the Concurrent Sessions 31-40 (11:30–12:25) Composition Class" Bridget Kriner 31: Kent Cuyahoga Community College, OH Everything Old Is New Again: A Humanities Reinvention Via Rejuvenation 35: Watertable A Faculty Panel Biographers International: Bridging Disciplines "Something Happened on the Way to Our Post- Panel Postmodern Future: Reconstruction of the Past as a Better Brian Jay Jones, biographer of Jim Henson, George Present through Historical Fiction" Lucas, and Washington Irving Luther Riedel Kate Buford, biographer of Jim Thorpe and Burt Northland Pioneer College, MD Lancaster "Too Many Philosophers and Not Enough Ditch Diggers!" Dean King, author of The Feud and Skeletons on the Kevin Murphy Sahara Anne Arundel Community College, MD Heath Lee, biographer of Winnie Davis (and curator "More Than a Game: Sports in the Ancient World" of an exhibit on Vietnam POW/MIA wives with Richard Hardesty Senator Bob Dole) Anne Arundel Community College, MD 9 Conference Schedule

36: Pride of Baltimore Banquet Luncheon Humanities Mentoring and the Retention PLENARY SESSION 2 Problem Roundtable 12:30–2:00 p.m. Maryland Ballroom CBA Scott Ash Presiding: Linda Sears Nassau Community College, NY Collin College, TX President, Southwestern Division 37: Fells Point Welcome: Anne M. Kress Moving from the Margins to the Center President of Monroe Community College, NY Moderator: Tim Stewart Bestowal of Awards: Andy Rusnak Community College of Rhode Island, RI Community College of Baltimore County, MD "'We Are Living in Babel Now': On the Transliminal in Speaker Introduction: Amy Clark Knapp Arundhati Roy’s Work" Clark State Community College, OH Elizabeth Wheeler President, Central Division Nassau Community College, NY Keynote Speaker: Janine di Giovanni "Between the Words and the Actions: Why So Few Great War Nursing Women Were Diagnosed with Shell Shock" Rose-Ethel Althus Meza Nassau Community College, NY About the Speaker 38: Watertable B The Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program And Janine di Giovanni—Edward Murrow Senior Fellow at Community Colleges the Council on Foreign Affairs, former Middle East Editor Faculty Panel at Newsweek, foreign correspondent, war reporter, regular David Dry contributor to The Times, Vanity Fair, Granta, The New York Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community Times, consultant on Syria to the UN High Commissioner College, NC for Refugees, named one of the 100 most influential people Emily Grigg in the world of armed violence by the organization Action Spartanburg Community College, SC on Armed Violence, author of numerous books including The Morning They Came for Us: Dispatches from Syria. Janine 39: Guilford di Giovanni witnessed and reported on the world’s most Humanities for All: Community College and violent struggles. "It was the winter of 2011 and I was in University Partnerships Student Panel Belgrade. The war that had destroyed Yugoslavia had been Monica Walker | Nicole Daniels over for many years, but I was working on a project tracing Students | JHU Residents war criminals. It was an intractable task, but the potent Community College of Baltimore County, MD emotion I felt towards the Balkan wars and their aftermath was not rational." 40: Gibson Reassessing STEM's Place in the Humanities Moderator: Traci Williams Smith College, MA "The War on Science: Bridging the Science Communication Gap" Michael LeBlanc Montgomery College, MD "Computational Thinking and Programming in the Humanities Curricula" Anthony Kolios Queensborough Community College, CUNY, NY

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Concurrent Sessions 41-50 (2:05–3:00) 45: Pride of Baltimore Culturally Relevant Pedagogy And The Most 41: Kent Honorable Elijah Muhammed Contextualizing English 101 Faculty Panel For Academic Pathways Frederick Douglass Dixon Faculty Panel University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, IL Andrew Rusnak | Gregory Campbell | Brooke Bognanni Abul Pitre Jess Floyd | David Maylish | Annemarie Chiarini Texas Prairie View A&M, TX Community College of Baltimore County, MD Bro. Troy 5X | Sister Debroh Muhammed A New Educational Paradigm 42: Gibson Teaching Texts Via Multiple Perspectives 46: Watertable A Moderator: Julie Trachman Transcending Regional Studies: Hostos Community College, CUNY, NY Curricular Projects Spanning World Regions "Teaching Technology and Society Using Humanities" Faculty Panel Robin Satterwhite Lisa Adeli Rowan Cabarrus Community College, NC University of Arizona Center for Middle Eastern "Introducing Multiple Perspectives through 'The Danger of Studies, AZ a Single Story'" Jessamyn Snider Sheri Jordan Cochise Community College, AZ Breeanna Elliott Anne Arundel Community College, MD Boston University, MA 43: St. George 47: Fells Point Using COIL and IT Tools to Enhance Global The Classics as Avenues to Student Engagement Teaching and Learning and Enlightenment Faculty Panel Moderator: Patricia Medved Marisol Galarza-Ruiz | Alice E. Wilson Suffolk County Community College, NY Thomas N. Capuano "Stage Set: Greek Theater and Democratic Civic Culture" Monroe Community College, NY Rich DeRouen

Collin College, TX 44: James "Figuratively Speaking: Using Mythological Characters to The Beauties of Musical Analysis and Redefine Parent-Teen Struggles" Transcultural Experience in the Classroom Barbara Lau Moderator: Margy McCampbell Kirkwood Community College, IA Community College of Baltimore County, MD "Analysis of Arvo Pärt's Cantus in Memory of Benjamin 48: Watertable B Britten" On-Going Debates and Struggles within Allan J. Ballinger Community Colleges Goodwin College, CT Moderator: Monika Fleming "Applications of Transcultural Analysis to East-West Edgecombe Community College, NC Humanities Studies" "Heads Up For 'Completion By Design'" Flora Carter Art Schuhart Modesto Junior College, CA Northern Virginia Community College-Annandale, VA "'September Days:' Struggle for Academic Freedom, Shared Governance, and Tenure" Fred Jordan Nashville State Community, TN

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49: Guilford 54: James Literary Magazine Advisors Workshop Digscovery: Jeanette Williams Bringing Myth, Art, And Culture Together Spartanburg Community College, SC Roundtable Liesl Harris | Libby Holmes 50: Watertable C Jefferson State Community College, AL Outliers: People Who Challenge Received Ideas Moderator: Lisa Adeli 55: Pride of Baltimore University of Arizona Center for Middle Eastern Underestimated, Underrepresented, Overlooked: Studies, AZ Falling into the (Academic) Rabbit Hole "Heretic, Lunatic, Populist, Crook: Testing Boundaries in Student Panel/Workshop/Roundtable Medieval Christendom" Traci D. Williams Helen Feng Smith College, MA College of DuPage, IL "'The Life of Riley' REVISITED" 56: Watertable A John J. Cooney The Same Night Sky: Ivy Tech Community College, IN The Contrasting Star Patterns and Stories of Native and Greco-Roman Cultures Coffee Break 3:00-3:15 Roundtable Stephen Kaufman Concurrent Sessions 51-60 (3:15–4:10) Raritan Valley Community College, NJ

51: Gibson 57: Fells Point Forgotten by Hollywood: Connecting Classrooms and Communities: LGBTQ and Latin American Experiences in Film Civic Engagement in the Community College Moderator: Elyse Zucker Moderator: Marisol Galarza-Ruiz Hostos Community College, NY Monroe Community College, NY "Performing Gender: LGBTQ Presence in Early Film" (New Jersey College English Association) Carolyn Perry "Teaching Writing by Teaching Racial Literacy" Collin College, TX Mara Lee Grayson "Latin American Stories We Will Never See in Hollywood" Pace University, NY Guillermo Gibens "Reading Autobiographies and Civic Engagement: Community College of Baltimore County, MD Transitioning Classroom Pedagogy into Community Contribution" 52: Kent Rachel Golland You Wrote the Paper, Now What? SUNY Rockland Community College, NY A Conversation about Publishing in Community College Humanities Review 58: Watertable B Sydney Elliot Humanities In Action In Cleveland: Tillamook Bay Community College, WA The Mandel Scholars Academy Panel 53: St. George Lauren Onkey Literary Voicing: Cuyahoga Community College, OH Polyvocal Texts And Polyphonic Reading Faculty Panel Jules Sears | Linda Sears Collin College, TX

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59: Guilford Committee Meetings (4:15—) Social Media's Role in Shaping Narratives Moderator: Sara Bachman Ducey 4:15 Watertable A Montgomery College, MD Membership Committee: all welcome "Social Media, Public Shaming, and the Scapegoat Facilitator: Daniel Lewis Mechanism" Community College of Baltimore County, MD Luke Schlueter Cuyahoga Community College, OH 4:15 Watertable B "Teaching One's Own History With Social Media" Diversity Committee: all welcome Andrew Johnstone Facilitator: Rebecca Williams Montgomery College, MD Essex County College, NJ

60: Watertable C 4:15 Watertable C One World, Many Languages: Volunteer Recruitment for CCHA: all welcome Literature and Culture in Today's Complex World Facilitator: Fran O'Connnor Moderator: Robin Cole-Jett Nassau Community College NY North Central Texas College, TX "Strategies For Upgrading Global Languages and Cultures to a General Education Requirement Outcome at the Community College Level" Monica Rossi Miller Queensborough Community College, CUNY, NY "Teaching World Literature in Community Colleges" Bishnu Ghimire College of Southern Maryland, MD

The Review

The Community College Humanities Review (CCHR) journal, published biannually by the CCHA, has gone through an extensive redesign and reevaluation of editorial content. Along with the publication’s historical penchant for outstanding peer-reviewed scholarship, CCHR now publishes essays on pedagogy, faculty profiles, book reviews, columns, poetry, fiction, and first-person reflections on life as a community college humanities professor. The Fall 2017 issue is now available.

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SATURDAY, Nov. 11th

7:00 a.m.–8:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast 64: James Maryland Ballroom CB Essential Grammar for Literature and 7:30 a.m.–9:00 a.m. Divisional Business Meetings Composition Courses: Adding Meaning, Not Stress 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Exhibits Roundtable 8:00 a.m.– 12:00 p.m. Registration Gregory Campbell | Heather Harris 9:15 a.m.–10:10 a.m. Liaison Officers Workshop Community College of Baltimore County, MD 10:30 a.m.–12:25 p.m. Deans' Committee 2:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Registration 65: Pride of Baltimore Using Pop Media to Teach Social Justice Divisional Business Meetings (7:30–9:00) Roundtable Katie Bickham Watertable A Watertable B Watertable C Bossier Parish Community College, LA Central Division Pacific-Western Southwestern 66: Watertable A Guilford Fells Point Spinning Custer: A Project from the "On Native Eastern Division Southern Ground: Native American History and Land" Summer Institute Concurrent Sessions 61-70 (9:15–10:10) Roundtable John Lawlor, Jr. 61: Kent Reading Area Community College, PA Freedom of Speech: What Does It Mean in Today's Turbulent Times? 67: Fells Point Moderator: Joseph Safdie Feminist Champions and Trailblazers San Diego Mesa College, CA Moderator: Laurie Hughes "Academic Freedom - "Fired?" Examining First Richland Community College, IL Amendment Rights From the Court to Class" "The Lady is a Champ: History of Women in Chess" Daniel Perrone Brian P. Moran Kingsborough Community College, CUNY, NY College of Dupage, IL "What is Real News?" "Carrying the Torch: Suffragists and Feminist Symbolism" Jacqueline Scott Amy Forss Community College of Baltimore County, MD Metropolitan Community College, NE

62: Gibson 68: Guilford 'Design Thinking' To Break Boundaries Of Student Social Justice, Social Media and Narratives of Dystopia Writing Spaces Moderator: John Casey Faculty Panel Community College of Baltimore County, MD Patricia Medved "Divergent Discourse: Examining Social Justice with Suffolk County Community College, NY Dystopia in the Class" — "From Orwell to Trilogies: Peggy Davis-Suzuki | Abrianna Jette Dystopian Fiction and Student Connection" St. John's University, NY Sarah Acunzo Suffolk County Community College, NY 63: St. George "Dystopia and Digital Narratives: Resisting Technology America's Wars: A Cross-Disciplinary Project 'Solutions' in Cline's Ready Player One" Faculty Panel Peter McKenna Jim Neilson | Barry Malone St. John's University, NY Wake Technical Community College, NC "No Fate but What We Engage With: Realization of Agency through the Terminator Series" Patrick Zwosta St. John's University, NY #CCHA17 14 Conference Schedule

69: Watertable B 74: James Liaison Officers Workshop: all welcome Learn by Doing: Facilitator: Daniel Lewis Grounding the Humanities through Manual Labor Moderator: Peter Ufland 70: Watertable C University of the District of Columbia-Community Adaptive, Integrated Humanities Courses College, DC Moderator: Stephanie Curran "Facilitation of College Level Experiential Learning: A Frederick Community College MD Proposal for an Interdisciplinary Eco-Home Project Kit" "Perspectives on Teaching a One-Semester Humanities Class" Mark Stubenberg Eugene A. Greco College of Southern Maryland, MD Miami Dade College, FL "I Am a Seamstress: Humanities and Manual Labor" "Documentaries: Enhancing Literature" Kristin Hanson Billy Tooma Kirkwood Community College, IA Essex County College, NJ 75: Pride of Baltimore Coffee Break: 10:10-10:25 Breaking Boundaries and Creating Inclusion Moderator: Bernadette Low Federal Hill Community College of Baltimore County, MD Deans' Committee Meeting 10:30-12:25 "Breaking Linguistic Boundaries: The Multilingual Class" Marta Moore Concurrent Sessions 71-80 (10:30–11:25) Collin College, TX "Lower Education: The Classist Case Against Humanities 71: Kent at Community Colleges" Phi Theta Kappa: Students’ Perspectives Rebecca Eggenschweiler Student Panel Montgomery College, MD Cyril Ikeh | Daniel MacNeal |Sue Fenton Community College of Baltimore County 76: Watertable A The Nest: A Bird's Eye View of The Food Pantry at 72: Gibson Nassau Community College, Long Island, New York Finding Diversity's Place in the Classroom Faculty Panel Moderator: Pat Ledbetter Sharon Masrour | Valerie Fasanello | Helen Rice North Central Texas College, TX Nassau Community College, NY "Fitting In: Finding a Place for Non-Western Texts in Survey Courses" 77: Fells Point Theresa James Humanities and the Writing-Centric Curriculum/ South Florida State College, FL Rethinking and Redesigning Assignments "Embrace Diversity in the Class and Beyond" Moderator: Renee Garris Victor Caliman Germanna Community College VA Nassau Community College, NY "Redesigning Developmental Reading: Literature Circles in College Reading" 73: St. George Toni Ann Hernan Art: The World’s First Historian Bronx Community College, CUNY, NY Roundtable "The Essay-Centered Curriculum in the Future of the Amy Clark Knapp Humanities" Clark State Community College, OH Nicole B. Wallack Columbia University, NY

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78: Watertable B 82: Gibson Student "Exchange" Programs: AAs, Meet BAMAs Meet CCHA: Informal "Open House" and Ph. D.s Roundtable Moderator: Rose-Ethel Althus Meza CCHA Staff Nassau Community College, NY Different staff will be available throughout the hour. "Emerging Partnerships: Community Colleges and Doctoral Programs in the Humanities" 83: St. George Anne Dwyer Easing through Intersections of Humanities and University of Washington, Simpson Center for the STEM Humanities, WA Moderator: Meghmala Tarafdar "Columbia Core at Hostos: Humanities for the Queensborough Community College, CUNY, NY Community College Student" "Math: It Has Problems" Andrea Fabrizio | Gregory Marks Michael Forte Hostos Community College, CUNY, NY Nassau Community College, NY "Meeting at the Intersection of Math, Science, and the 79: Guilford Humanities" Critical Thinking and Collaboration: Julia DiLiberti An Interdisciplinary Approach to Teaching And College of DuPage, IL Learning Faculty Panel 84: Watertable A Alisa Cercone | Trikartikaningsih Byas The Book as the Foundation for Humanities Barbara Lynch | Kathleen Wentrack Education Queensborough Community College, CUNY, NY American Academy in Rome/CCHA Affiliated Fellowship (AAR-CCHA) Workshop 80: Watertable C Laura Migliorino, Recipient of the 2016 Award, Engaging Students for Leadership Roles In Meeting Professor of Art at Anoka-Ramsey Community Community Needs College, MN Faculty Panel Meghmala Tarafdar | Elizabeth DiGiorgio 85: Pride of Baltimore Queensborough Community College, CUNY, NY Going Deep: Teaching the Arts and Civilization Moderator: Timothy Davis Concurrent Sessions 81-90 (11:30–12:25) Community College of Baltimore County, MD "Engaging Through Creation: Maker Culture in the Arts" 81: Kent Stuart Lenig Breaking Boundaries on the Way to Empowerment Columbia State Community College, TN Moderator: Brian Johnson "Avoid The 'Encyclopedic Skim': Teach World Civilization Cuyahoga Community College, OH With Depth" "Watching the Detectives: Using Genre Fiction to Teach Fred Jordan Composition" Nashville State Community, TN Mark Lamoureux Housatonic Community College, CT "Not Just Another Mystery Writer: Dorothy Sayers as Defender of Surplus Spinsters" Rose-Ethel Althus Meza Nassau Community College, NY

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86: James PLENARY SESSION 3 Poetry: We Need it Now More Than Ever Moderator: Tom Hallquist 12:30–2:00 p.m. Maryland Ballroom CBA Columbia State Community College, TN Presiding: Wes Lites "Redaction Reimagined: Textbook, Meet Poetry" Jefferson Community & Technical College, KY Hiedi Bauer President, Southern Division Lower Columbia College, WA Literary Magazine Awards: Jeanette Williams "Holocaust Poetry: The Burdens of a Holocaust Family" Spartanburg Community College, SC Richard Kalfus Welcome: Mary Way Bolt St. Louis Community College, MO President, Cecil College, MD Remarks and Introduction of Baltimore VIP: Tina Redd 87: Fells Point Central Oregon Community College, OR The Letter as Art In The Digital Age President, Pacific-Western Division Documentary by Dallie Clark Speaker Introduction: Paul Benson Collin College, TX Dallas County Community College, TX Keynote Speaker: "Bert" Phillips 88: Watertable B Breaking Boundaries: Collin College’s Book-in-Common Program Panel About the Speaker Marta Moore | Betty Bettacchi | Ryan Fletcher Collin College, TX Percival Bertrand “Bert” Phillips—Life-long humanitar- ian; civil rights advocate; former professor of psychology 89: Guilford The Witness Tree: and education at the Tuskegee Institute; former Dean A Photographic Document of Climate Change with of Students at the Tuskegee Institute; leader in creating Discussion on Increasing Activism on Campus community-based entrepreneurial opportunities for those Roundtable in need; recent recipient of an honorary degree from St. Carolyn Monastra Olaf College; current chairman of the Africa United States Nassau Community College, NY Partnership fund where he oversees a non-profit focused on "actively engaging youth, women, and families in gener- 90: Watertable C ating products and services that produce sustainable and Humanities: Not a Means to an End but Life Itself profitable results"; "Bert" Phillips is a truly altruistic and Moderator: Bonnie K.B. Fitzgerald influential individual. "I know that all men and women in Metropolitan Community College, NE every part of this world are my brothers and my sisters and "The Humanities: We Are Large, We Contain Multitudes" I need to reach out to them in love and peace." Hank Galmish Green River College, WA "Humanities as a Way of Life" Nicholas Plants Prince George's Community College, MD

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Concurrent Sessions 91-100 (2:05–3:00) 96: Pride of Baltimore A Possibility or A Dream: 91: Kent The Journey to Eradicate Achievement Gaps Diversity Initiatives and Co-curricular Faculty Panel Programming for Humanities Courses Lori Perez | Ketina Smith Roundtable Kellie McCants-Price | Julie Grignon Andra Basu Anne Arundel Community College, MD Lehigh Carbon Community College, PA 97: Watertable B 92: Gibson NEH Opportunities 3-D Printing in Traditional Academics Contributes Panel to Understanding Human Evolution Julia Nguyen Panel Senior Program Officer, NEH Stephen Kaufman | Conrad Mercurius | Jacki Belin Raritan Valley Community College, NJ 98: Fells Point Highlights from Original Play, Raising Medusa 93: St. George Play by Barbara Lau Music in Poetry, Poetry in Music Kirkwood Community College, IA Moderator: Michael Forte Nassau Community College, NY 99: Guilford "Re-Viewing Emily Dickinson" Incorporating International Content In Community Maryanne Garbowsky College Classes: University-College Collaborations County College of Morris, NJ Faculty Panel "Have You Seen the Candle Hat? The Arts in Poetry" "University-Community College Collaborations: Jacqueline Shadko University NRCs and What They Have to Offer." Oakland Community College, MI Lisa Adeli University of Arizona Center for Middle Eastern 94: James Studies, AZ History, Language, and Literature "University-Community College Collaborations: Faculty Panel Community College Innovations." Billy Tooma Kathryn Howard Essex County College, NJ Maricopa Community College, AZ K. Turner Zimmermann "College Curriculum Developed as Part of a Collaborative Hunter College, NY Program: Balkan Borderlands, a Fulbright-Hays Group "Purification Rituals in the Beowulf Manuscript" Projects Abroad Curriculum Development program to Andrew Clapham Bosnia and Albania: Looking Beyond the Surface: History, Seton Hall Preparatory School, NJ Forgetting, and the Politics of National Reconciliation." Robert Soza 95: Watertable A Mesa Community College, AZ Worth a Thousand Words: Visual Art and Culture "Survival Through Sarcasm: How Humor Makes the Moderator: Stephen Husarik Unbearable Bearable." University of Arkansas, AR Lisa Marsio "Visual Culture-A New Paradigm For Education" Scottsdale Community College, AZ Sarah Risha Rio Salado Community College, AZ 100: Watertable C "Integrating Visual Art in Online Interdisciplinary Applied Humanities and Equity in Hiring: Humanities Courses" Why it Matters (Part One) Laurie Olson-Horswell Jadi Omowale | David Truscello North Idaho College, ID Community College of Baltimore County, MD

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Coffee Break 3:00-3:15 pm 105: Pride of Baltimore A Picture, A Word, A Thousand Ways to Concurrent Sessions 101-110 (3:20–4:15) Incorporate Graphic Texts Into The Class Faculty Panel 101: Kent Aliza Atik | Barbara K. Emanuele Building Bridges: Lauren M. Herch | Brigitte Tilley Combining ESL with the Humanities Queensborough Community College, CUNY, NY Faculty Panel Megan Reiser | Renate Sorg 106: Fells Point Green River College, WA Communicating Effectively in the 21st Century Moderator: Guillermo Gibens 102: Gibson Nassau Community College, NY Understanding and Appreciating How Language "'We the People' Demand a More Democratic Republic: Works The 28th, 29th Amendments" Roundtable Corena White Moderator: Angela Buer Tarrant County College, TX Scottsdale AZ "The Simulation Revelation: Communication Training "How a Grammatical Analysis of Literary Works Can Opportunities across the CC Campus" Improve Students’ Understanding" Peter Carver | Renèe Eugene Rudolph Braithwaite Community College of Baltimore County, MD Community College of Baltimore County, MD 107: Watertable A 103: St. George Students Speak: Reading Coates & Debating Race Other Kinds of Narratives: in Community College Classrooms Uncovering the Lives of Ordinary People Student Panel Moderator: Linda Sears Moderator/Panelist: Kim Jensen (faculty member) Collin College, TX Mikayla Forbes | Antoine Williams "Roman People: Using Primary Sources to Teach about Tessa McConnell | Monique Butler Non-Elites" Community College of Baltimore County, MD Bonnie K.B. Fitzgerald 108: Watertable B Metropolitan Community College, NE Defending Your Life: "Evangeline in the 21st Century Class" Redefining the Utility of the Humanities Margaret Shaw Nassau Community College, NY Panel Peter Ufland | Juanita Eagleson | Andrew Howard 104: James University of the District of Columbia Community Design, Redesign: Getting Online Instruction Right College, DC Moderator: Rebecca Williams 109: Watertable C Essex County College, NJ Applied Humanities and Equity in Hiring: "Breaking Down the Passive: Active Learning and Why it Matters (Part Two) Engagement through Redesign" Jadi Omowale | David Truscello Alison Diefenderfer Community College of Baltimore County, MD Northampton Community College, PA "Blueprints for BlackBoard: Developing an Online 110: Guilford Women's Studies Course" Creating a "Natural Critical Learning Environment" Ashley Fifer in Survey Courses Nassau Community College, NY Roundtable Andrew Bishop | Heather DeVries | Tony Acevedo Hudson County Community College, NJ

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Post-Conference Workshop 1 Post-Conference Workshop 2

4:15 p.m. Watertable A 4:15 p.m. Watertable B Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries Through Linked Updating Humanities Across the Arts: And History Courses Case Studies With Activities David Leight | John Lawlor, Jr. Stephen Husarik Reading Area Community College, PA University of Arkansas, AR

Special Events Accommodations / Reservations

Pre-Conference Workshop 1 The Renaissance Baltimore Harborplace Hotel Tour of Washington, DC (Limit 15) 7:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m. Meet in hotel lobby. The hotel located right in Baltimore's , with breath-taking views of the Harbor from every room. Reservations must be made on or BIG: Baltimore Improv Group before Oct. 20, 2017, to receive the special conference rate for 179.00 www.bigimprov.org/ per night (single or double). You can make your reservations through (888) 745-8393 CCHA's website by using this link: Local improv performances. Some held in https://aws.passkey.com/event/49085396/owner/297/home the space next to Parts and Labor Restaurant.

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra www.bsomusic.org (410) 783-8100 Pinchas Zuckerman conducting and performing Back Violin in A minor, Schoenberg and Beethoven Symphony #2.

The https://thecharles.com/ 410-727-FILM Baltimore's original independent movie theater. Always running great films. Often running Sunday morning events. Great tapas next door: Tapa Teátro. Two-mile walk straight up scenic Charles Street.

www.guestreservations.com/renaissance-baltimore-harborplace-hotel/booking 202 East Pratt Street, Baltimore, MD 21202 1-410-547-1200

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Tours / Places to Go Transportation

American Visionary Art Museum Transportation from the Baltimore/Washington www.avam.org/ International Thurgood Marshall Airport comes in a 410-244-1900 variety of options. Walking Distance (Federal Hill): The most distinctive museum in the city. Art by the most avant-garde artists • The Super Shuttle is a 15 minute ride to the hotel. you've never heard of. Browse an exhibit and eat at the From lower floor baggage claim, go directly outside for restaurant on the top floor. assistance. $17 one-way; reservations required. • The Light Rail can be accessed directly at the airport. Fell's Point Haunted Pub Tour Within walking distance of the hotel is the intersection http://baltimoreghosttours.com/ of 299 North Howard and 301 West Camden Streets (877) 293-1571 where you will exit. Trains run daily: 6 a.m.–11 p.m., Kind of hokey, but interesting. Visit local bars and pubs Sundays, Holidays 11 a.m.–7 p.m. Visit Maryland in Fell's Point that are the oldest in Baltimore. Many Transit Administration's website or call 800-325-7245. claim to have ghosts. Tickets are purchased from a vending machine before boarding (and are not available on board). Fort McHenry National Monument • The MARC Train commuter rail system serves Maryland www.nps.gov/fomc/index.htm and Washington, DC areas. The Camden line operates (410) 962-4290 from 333 West Lombard Street (one block from hotel). Visit the Fort or simply walk around the grounds. Great Penn line operates from 1515 North Charles Street (1.8 views of the city and the harbor. Lovely lawn for a picnic. miles from the hotel). Rates vary. Visit Maryland Transit Administration's website or 800-325-7245. National Aquarium ($40) https://aqua.org/tickets • The Charm City Circulator (free, 5 routes), Orange (410) 576-3800 Line, Stop 222 is the stop right outside of the hotel. Walking Distance (across the street!): A unique aquatic http://www.charmcitycirculator.com/content/route-maps experience at the National Aquarium right around the • Amtrak into Penn Station Baltimore is 1.8 miles from corner from the hotel. hotel. (It’s a quick cab ride or light rail to hotel vicinity. Also, you can take the Charm City Circulator Purple Ivy Bookshop Line to Stop 302). Check Amtrak's website or call 800- www.theivybookshop.com/ 872-7245. (410) 377-2966 The best local independent bookstore. Located in Mt. For all transport information in Maryland, visit: Washington, a lovely north Baltimore neighborhood. http://msa.maryland.gov/msa/mdmanual/01glance/html/ trans.html The Walter's Art Museum https://thewalters.org/ 410-547-9000 The best art museum in the city. (Unless ultra-contemporary is your thing—then About the Cover American Visionary Art.) Thanks to Venus for the "Cool Poe" cover art. She is a Professional Multi Media Fine Artist; her work has been shown in numerous art shows and galleries and has been sold to art collectors around the world. For more, go to: https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/venus-venus.html

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Host College: Community College of Baltimore County (MD) Sponsoring Colleges: Cecil College (MD) Frederick Community College (MD) Monroe Community College (NY) Nassau Community College (NY) San Diego Community College District (CA) Supporting Colleges: Allegany College (MD) Anne Arundel Community College (MD) Carroll Community College (MD) Harford Community College (MD) Montgomery College (MD) Prince George's Community College (MD)

Institutional Members

Central Division Pacific-Western Division Southwestern Division Eastern Gateway Community College (OH) Arapahoe Community College (CO) Austin Community College District (TX) Kirkwood Community College (IA) Centralia College (WA) Collin College (TX) Metropolitan Community College (NE) College Of The Desert (CA) Eastfield College (TX) Northwest State Community College (OH) Community College Of Spokane (WA) El Paso Community College (TX) Prarie State College (IL) Front Range Community College (CO) Galveston Community College (TX) Schoolcraft College (MI) Miles Community College (MT) Harrison Middleton University (AZ) Waubonsee Community College (IL) Orange Coast College (CA) Richland College (TX) Wayne County Community College District (MI) Reedley College (CA) Scottsdale Community College (AZ) Seattle Central Community College (WA) Tarrant County College (TX) Eastern Division Shoreline Community College (WA) Allegany College Of Maryland (MD) Anne Arundel Community College (MD) Southern Division Borough of Manhattan Community College (NY) Bladen Community College (NC) Bronx Community College (NY) Bevill State Community College (AL) Carroll Community College (MD) Dabney S. Lancaster County Community College (VA) Cecil College (MD) Hillsborough Community College (FL) Community College of Baltimore County, MD Kentucky Community and Technical College (KY) Delaware County Community College (PA) Northern Virginia Community College (VA) Frederick Community College (MD) Northwest Florida State College (FL) Harford Community College (MD) Rowan-Cabarrus Community College (NC) Housatonic Community College (CT) Southwest Tennessee Community College (TN) Kingsborough Community College (NY) Southwestern Community College (NC) Massasoit Community College (MA) Spartanburg Community College (SC) Middlesex County College (NJ) St. John’s River State College (FL) Montgomery College (MD) Trident Technical College (SC) Monroe Community College, NY Wake Technical Community College (NC) Nassau Community College (NY) Wytheville Community College (VA) Prince George’s Community College (MD) Research Foundation Of Cuny (NY)

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